danielphillips1

Hi all, Can anybody post settings for Vray RT, for high quality render settings. I cant seem to reduce noise, its very grainy. I hope someone can help.

Thanks for the great and informative replies. In terms of cooling, what would be recommended, if one had more than one card in the rig.

What would be the trade off, for going M-ATX over ATX, Evga revealed a M-ATX http://tech4gamers.com/evga-x99-micro-matx-motherboard-revealed/ So you dont need to run duplicate cards in SLI for gpu rendering, if one is to add another card?

Thanks for the heads up on the ram, i will not go over 2400 then. Does the amount of sticks to make up a set, make any noticeable impact? For example, 32gb - is it better to get 1 set of 4x8gb (on an 8 slot mobo) or fill it with two sets of 4x4gb of ram. So you would recommend holding out for the 870 gtx, and getting two?

Can I have some feedback on parts that I was thinking of; CPU - 8Core, 16Thread i7-5960X MOBO - MSI X99S - http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/msi-x99s-sli-motherboard-photo.html RAM - Crucial Ballistix Elite 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4 3000MHz - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-183-CR&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=2557 Is 3000mhz overkill? How important is the rams speed? My current graphics card is - Gigabyte GeForce GTX 780Ti WindForce 3x 3072MB GDDR5. Should I get another one of these, or look at something different? What is recommended for GPU rendering? Thanks Dan.

How would you go about speccing a high end rig for speeding up rendering Dimitris?

Thanks Jason So to sum up, is this correct; Intel 4930K 3.40GHz Something like - G.Skill RipJawsZ 32GB (8x4GB) DDR3 RAM Asus X79 DELUXE Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard I was looking on various hardware sites, and I pieced these upcoming hardware together; 8Core, 16Thread i7-5960X when its released - Im assuming £1000 is the estimated price DDR4 ram when its available - Dependant on pricing - 24 gig X99 mobo when they are released Corsair H100i to cool the cpu. Is it still best to go with what you mentioned Jason?

In terms of what I was initially looking it, here is the list and rough pricing (using overlockers as an example) CPU - Intel Xeon E5-2670v2 2.50GHz 10-Core with Hyperthreading & Turbo (Socket 2011) - Retail MOBO - Asus Rampage IV Extreme Black Edition Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard RAM - Kingston HyperX Beast 64GB (8x8GB) PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX21C11T3FK8/64X) Bring it to a total of - £2,089 (I could probably shop around to bring this down to £2k) What are ones thoughts on this? How will that improve rendering times? Is it worth it? Thanks Dan.

I really appreciate your reply, Could you please link me to a dedicated node? In terms of Ram, I currently have 6 sticks of 2 gig, should I change these to 6 sticks of 8 gig?

Hi all, I would like to improve my home pc, and turn it into a machine that would be dedicated towards single frame still renders (not animation fly throughs), for architectural visualisation, 3DS max and Vray. I have up to £2000 to spend in upgrading my rig. I assume I focus on new MOBO, CPU and Ram? Would I see much of difference between a 10 core and 12 core cpu? Should I bump the RAM to 64gig? How much of a speed impact would going from my old generation quad core, to a 10 or 12 core cpu be? Would we only be talking fractions of a second, or large boosts? My current spec is the following; Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 Intel X58 Intel® Core™ i7 965 3.20GHz Extreme Corsair XMS3 12GB (6x2GB) DDR3 1600MHz 1x Samsung Evo SSD - 250GB 1x Samsung Evo SSD - 500GB 2x 500GB 7200RPM SATA II HDD Nvidia Geforce GTX 780 ti Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium. Regards, Daniel.

Many thanks. You have been very helpful. Is there any way of reducing the form factor of the rendernode?

Thank you for the replies. I must admit i am feeling rather lost now. If we ignore the gpu rendering side for now, my intentions are for the cpu rendering to be improved, what would the advice be? I am under the assumption to go with the following; New system spec Intel 4930K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor Asus P9X79 WS Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard Corsair Vengeance RED 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual/Quad Channel Kit 2x - Samsung 256GB SSD 840 PRO SATA 6Gb/ Antic P183 v3 tower GPU - undecided Use my old system as a rendernode Should i upgrade/ammend this at all? Recap; My current spec Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 Intel X58 Intel® Core™ i7 965 3.20GHz Extreme Corsair XMS3 12GB (6x2GB) DDR3 1600MHz 500GB 7200RPM SATA II Palit GeForce GTX 285 with 2GB GDDR3

Thanks for the reply, perhaps significant was a bad word to use. Im just not sure how much of a cut down in render time, spending 2 grand would get me on the spec I wrote. If its shaving off only a few minutes, i would probably re think. Would one perhaps suggest, replacing the fire pro with a titan? Alternatively i could use my gtx 285 and add a titan, disregarding the firepro. Or I just keep using my original card (gtx 285), and instead spending the money on a xeon processor, with more cores? For example, Intel Xeon E5-2660v2 2.20GHz 10-Core with Hyperthreading & Turbo (Socket 2011) Comes to the same price of the Firepro and I7 combined. If I brought over the GTX 285 from my current system, and used that for viewport, would this be a better move to make? Alternatively, how much of a benefit would i get if i used my current machine as a rendernode, if gone with a new system? I feel like a right nucense writing these posts/questions. I do apologise.

Hi, I would like to say a big thank you to the OP who put up the amazon lists, for the various setups. It helped me alot. I would like to ask some advice, as I am interested in upgrading my system, but I am not sure how big a jump the new spec would give me, in terms of cutting down on rendertimes. Currently, I use 3DS max and vray, I mainly produce stills of arch-vis type shots. Im still not sure if i should look at focusing on GPU rendering, and throw in two extra GTX570s If the new spec, is not expected generate significantly quicker render speeds, over my current, im not really sure what to do. My current spec Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 Intel X58 Intel® Core™ i7 965 3.20GHz Extreme Corsair XMS3 12GB (6x2GB) DDR3 1600MHz 500GB 7200RPM SATA II Palit GeForce GTX 285 with 2GB of GDDR3 Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium New system spec AMD Firepro 7900 Intel 4930K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor Asus P9X79 WS Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard Corsair Vengeance RED 32GB (4x8GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C10 1866MHz Dual/Quad Channel Kit 2x - Intel 335 Series 180GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - Retail Antec P183 v3 tower The new spec comes to £2,323 its a significant price to pay, im just unsure how much of an increase i will see in render times.